A research-focused, actively managed US convertible bond solution. We seek to exploit inefficiencies within the asset class and provide enhanced predictability of returns through a disciplined approach to risk management.
Our investment prefer to invest in total return convertibles that may offer twice as much upside as downside, for an equal movement of the common stock in either direction. We believe this methodology exemplifies the risk-adjusted returns that are inherent in this unique asset class.
Disciplined and time-tested investment approach
- Deep fundamental credit research, a stringent relative value framework, and top-down risk management.
Nimble approach
- An ability to be flexible and adapt the strategy to the prevailing environment in order to generate repeatable and dependable alpha.
An experienced and stable credit team
- A well-resourced, cohesive team of investment professionals with senior portfolio managers who have a long tenure of working together.
We believe long-term outperformance in corporate credit is most reliably generated by deep proprietary research to identify undervalued securities, and we focus on relative value while maintaining a technology-enhanced approach to risk management.
We leverage the expertise of the broad credit team, with research acting as the gatekeeper to the securities we hold, trading providing relative value and technical opportunities, and portfolio management setting the overall risk profile and positioning the portfolio for the prevailing environment.
Disciplined and time-tested investment approach
Macro assessment
Set the course for the secular trend but navigate intermediate cyclical events
Credit risk allocation
Determine the appropriate sizing of overall credit risk
Relative value
Spread / yield comparison versus industry peers, credit ratings, liquidity, and capital structure
Technical analysis
Deal size, buyer base, index eligibility, demand from foreign and domestic flows
Credit risk factors
Positioning across curve, quality, capital structure, and sector
Security selection
Deep fundamental credit research across the investible universe
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Risks
The value of the portfolio may fall as well as rise, and you may not receive back the amount invested.
Fixed income securities can lose value, and investors can lose principal, as interest rates rise. They also may be affected by economic conditions that hinder an issuer's ability to make interest and principal payments on its debt. This includes prepayment risk, the risk that the principal of a bond that is held by the portfolio may be prepaid prior to maturity at the time when interest rates are lower than what the fixed income security was paying. A portfolio may then have to reinvest that money at a lower interest rate.
Securities in the lowest of the rating categories considered to be investment grade (that is, Moody’s Baa or S&P BBB) have some speculative characteristics.
High yielding, non-investment-grade bonds (junk bonds) involve higher risk than investment grade bonds.
Liquidity risk is the possibility that securities cannot be readily sold within seven days at approximately the price at which a fund has valued them.
IBOR risk is the risk that changes related to the use of the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) or similar rates (such as EONIA) could have adverse impacts on financial instruments that reference these rates. The abandonment of these rates and transition to alternative rates could affect the value and liquidity of instruments that reference them and could affect investment strategy performance.
The disruptions caused by natural disasters, pandemics, or similar events could prevent the strategy from executing advantageous investment decisions in a timely manner and could negatively impact the strategy’s ability to achieve its investment objective and the value of the strategy’s investments.
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